Gerrit Hulleman wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Is there a way to assign memory to a FILE variable, allowing information to
> be read from memory in stead of from drive?
>
> I am trying to re-use an open-source package. This package uses a FILE*
> variable to load information from a file. Te content of the file is present
> in memory, and would like like the integrated package to use this stream in
> stead of a file.
>
> Situation:
> Info = "<XML><Test/></XML>";
> FILE *input =fopen('input.xml','r');
>
> Writing the Info to a file and than point to that file would be possible,
> but is there a way to point the input var to the info? I cannot change the
> FILE type of the var, since it is deeply integrated in the package.
>[/color]
No.
Not with FILE
If the package had used the C++ streams, there would be a way. But not
with the old C FILE functionality.
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Karl Heinz Buchegger
kbuchegg@gascad.at 
